10-year-old boy found a serious bug in Instagram.
The Facebook company has paid remuneration in the amount of $10 thousand the ten-year boy from Finland named Gianni (Janni), who discovered a security issue in Instagram. With the help of this bug young researcher could remove from the service any content.
In late February, he reported the problem to Facebook, and your prize received in March. To demonstrate the issue, he deleted the message on one of my test accounts in Instagram. Now Gianni is the youngest researcher, who managed to find a bug and get paid for it. Previous to this the child was 13 years old.
If you believe the message of the Finnish newspaper Iltalehti, Gianni learned the basics of programming and security systems on YouTube videos. The boy said he was going to become a security researcher, and won the money to spend on a new bike, soccer equipment and new computers for his two brothers.
In late March, Facebook in Instagram fixed a bug that could allow attackers to gain control over any account. At the end of February was fixed another problem that allowed users to see other people’s notice.
The largest hacking Instagram happened last December when one of the researchers managed to access the backend service. The reward he never received — Facebook decided that the researcher in his evidence for the existence of the problem has gone too far.
